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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/05/17882876.html Red rose petals littered the parking lot at Kelly Funeral Home in Orleans Tuesday morning after the memorial service for homicide victim Jessica Riopelle. Roughly 110 people packed the chapel — and dozens lined up out the door —to remember the 23-year-old who was killed March 26 at a south Ottawa motel. […]
MoreCall it an UnPC move by a PC member. The federal incumbent for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke is apologizing to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff after tweeting a comment likening his name to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. An 84-character post on Conservative incumbent Cheryl Gallant’s Twitter page reads: “@M_Ignatieff, sorry about remark on day 1. No place in debate […]
MoreWhile most university students wrap up the semester, the daughter of murder victim Tinde “Tina” Nemet cares for her younger siblings. Leonora Nemet, 20, is taking a break from nursing school at Laurentian University to look after her younger siblings — Teodora, 18 and Thomas, 16 — in Ottawa following their mother’s horrific killing. “She […]
MoreThe family of murder victim Jessica Riopelle is grieving privately after the 23-year-old was killed in a motel room Saturday. “We’re just too overwhelmed right now. We have to go,” said mother Karen Riopelle and another woman who didn’t give her name before closing the door to a house in Orleans. Karen and Jessica were […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/27/17775401.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/27/pf-17771511.html A 23-year-old woman is dead and Ottawa Police are calling it a homicide. Her body was discovered in the Saade International Inn, a motel attached to Diamonds Cabaret strip club and All Win Chinese restaurant in South Gloucester. Police said there were obvious signs of violence at the scene but the cause […]
MoreThere are mountains of rubble on Beechwood Ave. Saturday afternoon. Some passersby pause mid-step and stare. A few drivers slow down to gawk. Many don’t even acknowledge it — it’s part of the neighbourhood now. “It’s sad, but it could’ve been worse. It could’ve been the whole block,” said Christian Hurysz, who lives nearby. A […]
MoreScrambled eggs, toast, breakfast sausage, and a side of blue signs kicked off the Conservative campaign in Ottawa’s west end Saturday morning. Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod and Ottawa-West Nepean federal incumbent John Baird riled up the crowd as fellow MP Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign for re-election in Nepean-Carleton at Greenfield’s Pub in Barrhaven. More […]
MoreThe family of a missing Ottawa man is terrified for his safety and is begging the Canadian government to intervene after he vanished last Sunday. “He was either arrested or kidnapped from the Bahrain airport,” a distraught Sadeq Al Raas, 26, said about his brother, Naser Al Raas, 28. A Canadian citizen living in Kuwait, […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/24/17740716.html A $10 million settlement to the Algonquins of Ontario is in the works for the former CFB Rockcliffe site, the Sun has learned. According to a preliminary participation agreement obtained by the Sun — which outlines the terms of the settlement but is unsigned — the federal government will pay the Algonquins […]
MoreChristine Drew is still seeing red over potholes. Her car got banged up on the Airport Parkway during a long weekend back in 2008. “It damaged the car right away,” she said. The shocks on her 2000 Dodge Neon were cracked, busted and broken. “We were on our way out of town and we had […]
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